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Also worth mentioning, Maven manages dependencies but it's primarily a build system.

Gradle is another build system with dependency management.

The initial setup of publishing an artifact is high on Maven Central, but Sonatype makes it easier. Even easier is publishing to clojars.

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Yeah, that is good point. I guess should have point out that in the article.

But I still think that the initial publishing on Maven Central is more difficult then it should be. Pretty much every other package is doing a better Job on publishing. It took me less then a minute to publish my very first Ruby Gem. But it took me 1 week to publish my very first Jar file on the Maven Central.

Clojars is doing better.

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